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How popular is “Gamal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gamal” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gamal” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Gamal” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Gamal” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Gamal” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Gamal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gamal” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 14 0.000003367 14 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 -100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1981 17 0.000004914 17 -100%
1982 14 0.000003991 14 -100%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 -100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 10 0.000002952 10 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 -100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 -100%

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